A brief backtrack, for those who haven’t been overwhelmed with purple food photos all week: Eitan and I went to the Tel Aviv port farmer’s market, and came home with an unplanned surplus of vegetables in unusual colors. As I stated a few days ago[1], I’ll be spending the week figuring out how to use them.

The entire process was very simple. I boiled the potatoes on the stovetop for about 10 minutes, until they became soft. I then pulled them out of the water — they dried almost instantly — and quartered them (they’re so small this creates bite-sized pieces). They were a purplish-blue inside at this point.

I then drizzled them with olive oil and lemon, and was pleased to see that the acidity of the lemon turned the potatoes a brilliant magenta. The olive oil made the potatoes almost buttery.

Finally, I tossed my purplish magenta potatoes with freshly ground black pepper, salt and a sprinkle of chopped cilantro. Then we ate them.